[bannie]

Essential to remember in this experiment of life: We can't know the absolute, finite differences our lives would have held if certain aspects of our lives had been different. If your high school experience had been another, you might have cause your parents different horrors.

Personally, I'm grateful for the paths of my life--many of which weren't ideal--because they led me to where I am.

[ican'tbelieveit]

Well, good for you.

The lesson in this is that I don't need to needlessly put my children through hell just because I went through hell and was "better" for it.

I wasn't better for it.